A village in eastern Germany has found a creative way to finance road repair costs: it put its many potholes up for sale. The mayor announced  the program on Wednesday. Caption: Get me tar

The US is finalizing a new nuclear strategy that would include reducing its arsenals in Europe. Those weapons are believed to be stored in Germany, Italy, Belgium, Turkey and the Netherlands.

Outraged by the cover story of a German weekly news magazine that advises against the bailout of crisis-struck Greece, many Greeks are calling for a boycott of German manufactured goods.

The UN has condemned as "inadmissible" Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's call for a holy war against Switzerland. Such declarations on the part of the head of state were inadmissible, it said

German lawmakers Friday approved troop reinforcements in Afghanistan which will raise the number of German soldiers to 5,350 from the present 4,500.

A DNA test on a man in Austria has proved that he is a living relative of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler. The 46-year-old farmer was horrified to learn the blood of the "greatest criminal" is in his veins.

Germany launched Thursday a global campaign to promote its language which, according to official statistics, is spoken by 180 million people worldwide, though the number is shrinking.

The German government plans to cut state-mandated incentives for rooftop solar power by 16 percent from July 1 and eliminate support for converted farmland.

Thousands of pilots working for Lufthansa and its subsidaries Germanwings and Lufthansa Cargo will resume work on Tuesday, after their union agreed to suspend a four-day strike.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel plans an extended visit to the United States in April during which she will attend an international summit on nuclear non-proliferation.

The Dutch prime minister has tendered his government's resignation to Queen Beatrix after a disagreement over the country's Afghan military mission ended his ruling coalition.

Environment Minister Norbert Röttgen predicted on Saturday that Germany would be free of nuclear power by 2030, eight years later than originally planned.

Hundreds of Rightists gathered in Dresden Saturday on the anniversary of the 1945 allied air raids, but they were opposed by thousands of counter-demonstrators.

The German government is taking the lead in an effort to bail out  cash-strapped Greece and protect the Euro, Europe's common currency. Berlin does not rule out bilateral aid.

A cabinet meeting convened Monday by Prime Minister François Fillon (center) brought an official end to months of public debate on the tricky and divisive issue of French national identity.

German Chancellor Merkel and French President Sarkozy have unveiled a plan designed to improve Franco-German over the next ten years. The goal is also to promote European ideas globally.

In spite of negative public opinion, Chancellor Angela Merkel announced Tuesday that Germany's troop contingent for Afghanistan will be increased by 850, including 350 reservists.

U.S. military commanders met with German officials are discussing the possibility of moving Landstuhl Regional Medical Center to the site of an old Army depot east of Ramstein Air Base.

The population declined by a quarter of a million people in 2009, the equivalent of the population of a mid-sized city, as births again failed to keep up with deaths.

General Stanley McChrystal
Stanley McChrystal, the US general commanding forces in Afghanistan, has demanded a different approach from Germany in the handling of its Afghan mission.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel told Israeli leaders in Berlin on Monday she's willing to back new sanctions on Iran.

The governor of the northern Afghan province of Kunduz has called the German military’s service there “ineffective” and said he would welcome more help from US troops, according online publication The Local. (Photo: Bundeswehr soldier)

The United Nations has called on Austrian officials to "disarm in language" as the debate over construction of a third asylum seekers’ center continues.

As pedestrians all over the northern hemisphere slip and slide over icy pavements this winter, an innovative Swiss manufacturer is hoping to come to their rescue.

Pirate Party backers demonstrated in their underwear at German airports to protest controversial “naked” scanners planned for security checks.